Hummingbird of the Reborn Warrior

The myth

For the Mexica, one’s fate after death depended on how one died, not on how one had lived. Warriors killed in battle or in sacrifice went to the House of the Sun, in the eastern sky. Every morning, with shields and war cries, they escorted the sun from dawn to noon. According to the Florentine Codex, after four years they returned to earth as hummingbirds, butterflies and other brightly plumed birds, and lived on the nectar of flowers. This card depicts exactly that rebirth.

Why it has this power

A Level 6 Rare with 2200 ATK and 1800 DEF: the tiny Sun Hummingbird, with 700 ATK, gains the strength of a whole warrior. Fire and Sun are the light he escorted for four years; Crown is the honor of the House of the Sun. It is born by fusing the Sun Hummingbird with the Fallen Warrior of the Flowery Field — the myth itself as a recipe.

Did you know

Those who drowned or were struck by lightning went elsewhere, to Tlalocan, Tláloc’s green paradise.

Connections

• Born from the fusion of: Sun Hummingbird + Fallen Warrior of the Flowery Field

Where to get it

• Campaign drop: Itzel, Guardian of the Fifth Sun (Valley of the Fifth Sun) — grade S: 13% · grade A: 13% · grade B: 13% · grade C: 13% · grade D: 12%
• Born from the fusion of: Sun Hummingbird + Fallen Warrior of the Flowery Field

Sources

1. Hummingbird (Mexicolore) — Ian Mursell
2. Monarch Butterflies and Religious Beliefs in Central Mexico (Mexicolore) — Jesper Nielsen
3. ¿A dónde iban los muertos? (Arqueología Mexicana) — Enrique Vela